The People’s Assembly will discuss on Monday the principles approved on Saturday by its Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee for electing the members of the assembly that would lay down the country’s new constitution.
The draft law, which is an outcome of a series of hearings held by the committee with constitutional experts and representatives of various social sectors, contained 13 articles that would regulate the formation and election of Constituent Assembly members.
An administrative court ruling in April annulled a former Islamist-dominated formation of the assembly, citing an unbalanced representation.
State-run news agency MENA reported that the new draft law stipulates conformity to Article 60 of the Constitutional Declaration, which tasks Parliament with electing a 100-member panel to prepare the constitution, within two months of issuing the law.
Article 2 would grant the elected constitution-writing assembly a legal personality independent of state institutions.
The assembly should have its own budget that it would set the conditions for, and should be approved by the Cabinet, the draft law says.
It also would grant the elected panel the freedom to adopt regulations organizing its system of operation, a stipulation that stirred disapproval by some MPs.
